Her least successful works are several stiff landscapes that tend to move, process-wise, from dark, thick paint at the edges toward lighter, thinner, more brittle treatments at the center.
Sturgeon's Captured Landscape had faced stiff competition.
"Arcadia" was clearly just a re-entry point; her turn as Hannah Jarvis, a landscape historian, was a bit stiff and did not seem an ideal fit.
By contrast, Tim Barrow as Lieutenant George Yolland is making the opposite journey, casting off his stiff patrician costume for the allure of a landscape free of his brand of buttoned-up repression.
In the last two years, he's won countless awards for his series Tus Pasos Se Perdieron con el Paisaje ( "Your Steps Were Lost in the Landscape"), which unsurprisingly features pictures of stiffs.
"Beware the Moores of England," Jim Glass writes in his notebook, bored stiff while listening to his history teacher describe the English landscape and weather.
Despite stiff political opposition when the acquisition was announced last summer, the changing landscape in Washington has removed those obstacles, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to approve the deal within days.
The higher-resolution data acquired with the stiff linker system thus allowed construction of a meaningful free-energy landscape for the short hairpin that contains two minima.
Qianlong, who supposedly composed 40,000 poems, became a chaqu aficionado, spending long hours writing stanzas about dreamy landscapes, flower picking and the glories of a stiff drink.
Enabling technologies focused on driving engagement face stiff competition as illustrated by the highest density of logos on the landscape.
